Samsung Glyde Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $149.99
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 11774
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
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Model: SCHU940DBV
UPC: 635753470048
ASIN: B00192I762
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Sleek multimedia phone with 2.8-inch touchscreen and slide-out, full QWERTY keyboard | | • | Access Verizon's V Cast Music and Video service via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions | | • | 2-megapixel camera with video capture; Bluetooth for headsets and music streaming; microSD memory card expansion (up to 8 GB) | | • | Up to 3.5 hours of talk time, up to 250 hours (10+ days) of standby time; measures 4.09 x 1.98 x 0.71 inches (HxWxD) | | • | Includes: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, quick start guide, user guide |
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Amazon.com Product Description
A powerful and sleek multimedia and messaging phone, the Samsung Glyde for Verizon boasts a robust feature-set, an innovative and colorful touchscreen, and full QWERTY keyboard. The 2.8-inch advanced touchscreen offers a tactile response as you tap onscreen buttons, and the slide-out QWERTY makes it easy to stay in contact via text and instant messaging. It's compatible with Verizon's V Cast Music Service, which enables you to purchase songs through your phone and download them via Verizon's fast EV-DO data network. You'll also stay on course thanks to the VZ Navigator GPS turn-by-turn direction service. Other features include a 2.0-megapixel camera, microSD memory expansion (up to 8 GB), Bluetooth connectivity for both communication headsets and stereo headphones, and up to 3.5 hours of talk time. 
The 2.8-inch display doubles as a state-of-the-art interactive touch pad for more user-friendly navigation. | Verizon Service Options
With support for the EV-DO high-speed data standard, you'll enjoy fast access to the Internet and Verizon's multimedia services (additional charges applicable), with average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps and peak rates up to 2 Mbps. (Learn more about where EV-DO coverage is offered.) The V Cast Music service enables you to download songs instantly to your phone, or purchase music through your PC and transfer the files to your phone. If purchased from your phone, you'll receive two copies of the song: a Windows Media Audio Pro Plus format at 64Kbps stereo is sent to your phone, and a Windows Media Audio 9 format at 160Kbps stereo is sent to your account in the V CAST Music online store for downloading to your PC. V Cast Music offers nearly 2 million songs, with more being added all the time. The V Cast Video service enables you to stream or download video clips to your phone from a variety of news, entertainment, sports, and weather channels, including CNN, ABC News, E!, CBS Sports, The Weather Channel, and VH1. Getting on the Internet is easy using Verizon's Mobile Web 2.0 package, which allows you to read and send e-mails, exchange instant messages and view your favorite web content on your phone. Verizon's Get It Now wireless download service is also fully compatible with this phone. This pay-per-download service features application downloads, games and productivity tools. You can also personalize your handset with ringtone downloads using the Get It Now service. With this GPS-enabled phone, you'll be able to access Verizon's VZ Navigator service (additional charges applicable) for voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, heads-up alerts, local search of nearly 14 million points of interest in the US (such as landmarks, restaurants and ATMs), and detailed color maps. 
With one quick slide, enjoy a large QWERTY keyboard to text or IM friends with lightening speed. | Phone Features
The combination touchscreen, slider keyboard design of the Samsung Glyde provides a variety of ways of interacting with the phone's features. The large touch-enabled LCD measures 2.8 inches vertically and has a 240 x 440-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors. The front of the chassis has a single button (much like another, often talked about touchscreen phone), and the phone offers most of its controls via the touchscreen--which provides adjustable haptic vibrating feedback, so you know when you've pressed a button. The front of the Glyde's face slides open from the left side of the phone and it's easy to open and close with just one hand. When the keyboard is opened, the display automatically changes to landscape orientation. The keyboard offers no dedicated numbers, so you'll do your dialing via the numeric keypad that appears on the or touchscreen. The Glyde can store up to 500 contacts, with each entry able to store five phone numbers, two email addresses, notes, and a picture ID. It's compatible with saving contacts to groups and pairing contacts with a ringtone (polyphonic or real music ringer). The phone has a 45 MB internal memory, which is expandable via optional microSD memory cards (up to 8 GB in size). It also provides speaker-independent voice activated commands, including dial, menu readout, text message readout, and call announcement. A speakerphone means you can easily talk hands-free, while Bluetooth (version 1.2) allows you to use your favorite wireless headset. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. It also includes profiles for printing images directly to printers, dial-up networking, and sending vCard and vCalendar items to other phones. The 2-megapixel camera has six resolution modes for still photos (from 1600 x 1200 for printing to 176 x 144 pixels for sending via MMS). It features a 9x digital zoom, an integrated flash, self-timer, multi-shot mode, and customizable settings for brightness and white balance. The camera can also capture video with sound and it offers two resolution settings (320 x 240 and 176 x 144 pixels). You can shoot for up to 30 seconds for sending or as long as you have space on your optional memory card. You can easily add new music to your collection while on the go from Verizon's V Cast Music service and listen to them on the integrated digital audio player, which offers compatibility with MP3, WMA, AAC/AAC+ file formats. You can sync your tunes from your PC (Windows Media Player 11 or higher), as well as create and manage playlists right on the phone. The enV2 can also play video clips from Verizon's V Cast Video service, and ti's compatible with WMV, MP4, 3GP, and 3G2 formats. 
The Glyde weighs 4.2 ounces. | The Glyde has all the bases covered when it comes to messaging, too, with support for sending and receiving text, picture, and video messages as well as mobile instant messaging (IM). There's also a complete e-mail client on the device for POP- and IMAP-based accounts. And of course, the QWERTY keyboard makes it a snap to type your messages. The Glyde ships with a number of handy tools, including a calendar and a voice memo application. An alarm clock and calculator are also included. The Glyde supports V Cast 3-D games, as well as other 2-D-based games, which are available from Verizon's Get It Now service. You can also customize the phone's wallpapers and screen savers to give your phone a look that suits your style. Other features include: - Bluetooth version 1.2 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BIP (for sending images to another device), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)
- Music Player for WMA, MP3, unprotected aac and aac+ formats
- Full HTML browser
- Instant messaging via AIM, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Personal organizer with calendar, calculator, notepad, currency converter, alarm clock, world time and stop watch
- TTY compatible
- Hearing Aid Compatibility = M4
Vital Statistics
The Samsung Glyde weighs 4.2 ounces and measures 4.09 x 1.98 x 0.71 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 210 minutes (3.5 hours) of talk time, and up to 250 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 Don't waste your time December 2, 2008
L. Frenz (San Diego, CA United States)
I had this phone for a week and tried to let it grow on me, but instantly disliked it. The touchscreen was greatly lacking usablity and functionality, the keyboard was awful, the screen was too narrow and elongated, etc. I wanted to like it...I was really stoked about getting it and I've always enjoyed Samsung phones. But this phone changed that for me. I've never liked LG, but just returned the Glyde last night and got the Voyager instead...I instantly loved the Voyager! When I was returning the Glyde, another customer next to me was trying to do the same thing. He was on his second Glyde and was still having major problems. The only thing that I didn't find horrible about the Glyde was the camera, other than how long it took to get the phone to switch into camera mode. It's a bummer I had to waste $35 on a restocking fee for such a worthless phone, but I think the Voyager is already making up for it.
 This is the best phone! November 27, 2008
P. deepan (USA)
I love this phone of mine. I will say some things are bad but most of them are good. The glyde's call quality is great, and the texting is easy thanks to the keyboard. The camera is OK, but the color is a little drab. The background and menus are exquisite. The touch screen is great even on medium sensitivity level. I think that it is better than the Voyager, personally. The only other bad things is that if you accidentally touch the screen, it will 99.9% of the time react on any sensitivity. The screen size is perfect, and the call and txts are amazing, touch screen's fine, and the camera is exceeding it's expectations. If you want a sexy phone that is user-friendly, I strongly recommend this phone.
The Worst Phone EVER. DO NOT BUY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. November 14, 2008
Andrea E. Lane (Los Angeles, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the worst phone in the history of phones...ever. You think I'm exaggerating, but I'm not.
To be fair, I absolutely love the QWERTY keyboard. I'm a chronic texter and the format makes life a lot easier. However, lots of phones now feature QWERTY keyboards. Go for one of those.
The camera on this phone is also extremely excellent. However, once again, lots of phones these days have nice cameras.
The touch screen phone is terrible. Half of the time the touch screen doesn't respond to my commands, and the other half of the time it activates itself and goes completely haywire. There is no easy way to manually input commands, so this is a major drawback. If you are on the phone and the keypad is not locked, your cheek hits the dial pad and will either make that annoying button sound on the other end of the call, or will hang up on whoever you're talking to.
The memory on the phone is awful unless you are willing to shell out for an extra memory card. You can't have more than 100 texts in either your inbox or outbox. If you hit the maximum, not only does it send you frequent (and annoying) reminders, but you also literally will NOT be able to send or receive texts. On a QWERTY phone, and on a phone that proclaims itself as being for the 'texting generation', this seems like something of an oversight.
PLEASE, SAVE YOURSELVES THE FRUSTRATION. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE. IT IS CERTAINLY NOT WORTH $150. Maybe $5, but if you're feeling sorry for Samsung and Verizon for producing such a phenomenally terrible product.
Most Annoying Phone November 3, 2008
Ashish Moondra (Madison Al)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not a user friendly phone. Touch screen acts funky. If the phone is unlocked while you are talking touch screen keeps hitting the numbers by the touch of your ear. Dial Pad acts funky at times. You want to type 1 and it types 3. Even to access recent call is a 6 step process- turn on screen, unlock, menu, recent calls, select phone number, press it twice to make a call. unlike other phones that has a green button, you hit it twice to access recent call. Even to receive call you have to actually look at the screen and hit answer because of touch screen. There is no other way to answer unless you slide open the phone but then it turns on the speaker. Overall the most everyday used features are all messed up in this phone.
 Great design, but some problems... November 1, 2008
Matt Hoskins (Bend, OR United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
3 1/2 Stars
My family and I all got new phones from Verizon about a month ago, and I did a lot of research beforehand. I knew that I wanted a phone with a qwerty keyboard for texting, but I didn't want the Voyager or the ENV2. I really liked the design of the Samsung Glyde, but I had heard that people had had problems with it, but I got it anyway.
The screen looks great and is very bright. I haven't tested the volume too much, but the last time that I got called in a noisy cafeteria I didn't hear it ringing (and it was in my bag, so I didn't feel it vibrating). Signal strength can be pretty bad, but not really any worse than my last phone (some no-name Nokia flip phone).
The keyboard is responsive, the touch screen, not so much. Especially when the battery is low, the Glyde will completely misinterpret where I touched the screen, or sometimes will do things on it's own. It becomes very frustrating when I'm trying to text somebody and the screen suddenly starts scrolling up and down randomly. Also, I sometimes have to touch the screen more than once for it to register.
Overall, I'm happy with my Samsung Glyde, and I certainly get attention whenever I pull it out at school, however some software problems (or hardware problems; it's not quite clear which) with the touch screen are unforgivable.
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